What Grace Is This

The Cross Calls Out the Victory

Music by Ron Shilling

This text holds up the cross and the tomb as symbols of Christ’s victory over sin and death, a victory that ushers in a new epoch of joy, which echoes in the triumphant refrain: "The cross calls out the vict’ry! / The tomb tells our release! / The Crucified is risen! / Commence the Easter feast!"

An earlier version of this text was sung at a Martin Luther College Reformation service in the early 2000s. The uplifting music was written by Professor Emeritus Ronald Shilling.